Aparna Dhinakaran is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Arize AI, where she leads product for a platform serving machine learning teams. Building a product company from the ground up, she works on the problems practitioners face once models leave the notebook: understanding performance, debugging failures, and keeping AI systems healthy in production.

Her path to entrepreneurship runs through some of the strongest research environments in the field. Aparna completed a Computer Vision PhD at Cornell, contributed to machine learning efforts at Uber, and was part of UC Berkeley AI Research. That combination of academic depth and industry-scale ML practice shapes how she thinks about product decisions: grounded in what models can actually do and in what teams need to operate them reliably.

As a founder who came up through research rather than business school, Aparna represents a growing group of builders translating state-of-the-art AI into dependable products, and she brings both the researcher’s rigor and the product leader’s focus on real user problems.